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CAR FDR DISINFEGTING APPARATUS.

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WILLIAM H. FRANCIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR FOR DISINFECTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,956, dated December 1, 1 1

Application filed May 4,1901. Serial No. 58,731. (No model.)

To (LZZ 2072/0712 it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Farmers, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Cars for Disinfecting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention has relation to a car adapted for use in a disinfecting apparatus of the class or type illustrated, for instance, in the Letters Patent No. 655,070, granted to me under date of July 31, 1900, and wherein the articles to be disinfected are placed in the car and the car and articles moved in and out of a cylindrical shell constituting the disinfecting-chamber, and in such connection it relates to the construction and arrangement of such a car.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a car of comparatively inexpensive construction and light and strong, said car being furnished with shelves removable from the car and arranged to receive the articles to be fumigated or disinfected.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevational view, partly broken away, of a car embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan View of the same, one of the shelves being partly withdrawn from the car; and Fig. 3 is an end elevational view of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, a (0 represent the end frames of the car, which, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3, are partly circular, with a horizontal or flat base portion a. The material of the frames a a is preferably angle iron or steel, one wing of the angle-iron being vertically disposed, whereas the other wing forms the continuous circular and horizontal perimeter of the frame. The horizontal or base portions 0. a of the end frames are united together by the longitudinal beams or bars a a also preferably formed of angle iron or steel, the flat or horizontal wing of each beam or bar a being united in any suitable manner to the flat or perimeter wing of each horizontal portion a a. The circular upper portions of the frames act-are connected together by longitudinal beams or bars a afiwhich are preferably of flat metal. Each beam or bar a has projecting from its under in any suitable manner to the under face of each beam or bar a Into each strip of wood a is screwed or otherwise secured a series of hooks a upon which articles to be disinfected may be hung, if required. Each end frame a is provided with one or more crosspieces I), of angle-iron, having the upper wing arranged in a horizontal plane. The crosspieces I) on one frame a correspond in posiframe a, and the horizontal parts of these pieces 1) form or constitute ledges adapted to receive and support one or more shelves. Each shelf consists, essentially, of a frame (1 of substantially rectangular shape, the ends of which are formed of angle-iron arranged so that one wing is horizontal and adapted to slide upon the ledges b. Upon this rectangular frame a wire-netting d is adapted to be secured and, if desirable, may be readily removable from the rectangular frame d. The frame d and netting d may be moved on the ledges b, seas to be wholly or partly withdrawn fro1 rthe car through the sides when the car is wholly removed from the dis infecting-chamber. This chamber, as illustrated ii dotted lines in Fig. 3, is usually in the-form of a cylindrical shell, and in its base is located the continuation of the tracks e, upon which the wheels f of the car are adapted to travel. These wheels f are arranged so that they will come within the outline of the disinfecting-chamber, and to accomplish this at each end frame are secured two braoketsf', each preferably secured to and depending from the lower longitudinal braces or bars a below the horizontal portion a of each end frame. The brackets f carry a bearing-block f in which revolves the shaft f to which the wheel fis secured. The shafts f project inwardly toward each other, so that the wheels f extend inward intermediate of the two lower bars o The construction and arrangement above described is exceedingly strong and is comparatively inexpensive. The car thus formed is virtually a skeleton and interposes no large surface into the car a strip of wood a, united tion with the cross-pieces of the other end surface to the free circulation and passage of the disinfecting gases in the disinfectingchamber and car. The shelves being removable from the sides of the car permits of a very rapid filling and unloading of the car before it enters the chamber or after it leaves the same.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a car for disinfecting apparatus, two end frames each partly circular and having a flat base portion, each frame formed of angle iron or steel, one wing of which forms the continuous perimeter of each frame.

2. In a. car for disinfecting apparatus, two end frames, each partly circular and havinga fiat horizontally-disposed base portion, each frame formed of angle iron or steel, one wing of which forms the continuous perimeter of the frame and the other wing projectingin a vertical plane therefrom.

3. In a car for disinfecting apparatus, two end frames each partly circular and having a flat, horizontally-disposed base portion, each frame formed of angle iron or steel, one wing of which forms the continuous perimeter of the frame andthe other wing projecting in a vertical plane therefrom, cross-pieces of angle iron or steel for each frame, each cross-piece having one wing united to the vertical wings of each end frame and having the other wing projecting ina horizontal plane therefrom to form a ledge, and a removable shelf supported upon the ledges formed by said cross-pieces.

4. In a car for disinfecting apparatus, two end frames each partly circular and having a flat horizontally-disposed base portion, longitudinal bars uniting the base portions of the frames, longitudinal bars uniting the upper portions of said frames, ledges formed on the interior of each end frame, and a shelf resting upon said ledges between the end frames and removable through the sides of the car.

5. In a car for disinfecting apparatus, two end frames each partly circular and provided with a flat horizontally-disposed base portion in combination with two brackets for each end frame, projecting downward from the base portion, a shaft having a bearing in each bracket and wheels carried by said shaft and located intermediate of the ends of the base portion. r

6. In a car for disinfecting apparatus, a shelf consisting of a substantially rectangular main frame formed of angle iron or Steel, one wing of which projects in a horizontal plane, and the other wing depending vertically therefrom, and awiremetting supported upon the horizontal wings of the main frame, in combination with ledges provided with horizontal faces arranged to support the horizontal wings of either end of the main frame.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscrib-:

ing witnesses. I

WILLIAM H. FRANCIS. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DoUcLAss, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

